Written By: D. Collins 3/8/26
It was the word used when Spain killed the Aztecs.
Is it now America's agenda if Cuba is next?
Venezuela and Iran were the first on the list.
Hopes to reign in Canada was abruptly dismissed.
Are Mexico and Brazil within obtainable sites?
Since they don't have nukes or our military might.
The conquest may extend to Argentina and Peru.
Our bullying tactics are what all bullies do.
Iran is the exception that has gotten us drawn in.
Israel finally found a bloke to fight the war for them.
The conquest is moving forward with ferver and passion.
What we once called wars are labeled kinetic actions.
~ An Eight-Line Treatise on 'Settler Colonialism' ~
The Apache beat up on the Cheyenne
and the Iroquois on the Sioux
Mohawks ‘mohawked’ the Mohicans
Aztecs turned the Cree into stew …
Now Europeans are called ‘settler colonialists’
but who does America really belong to
Probably Neanderthal and Cro-Magnon man
~ dispossessed by Indians too
Dia de Los Muertos
Day of the Dead
Originated by Aztecs
Celebrated in Mexico and Philippines
Aztecs called it Miccaihuitl
Catholics call it All Saints Day and All Souls Day
I call it Day of the Dead
Tribute to our ancestral souls
Honoring those in our family who have died
Keeping their memory alive
We celebrate with music, food and drink
festivals and parades
Women dress as La Catrina
Tall female skeleton who wears fancy dress
And a lavish hat
Originally derived to make fun of the rich
Sugar skulls and salt are placed on the ofrendas
Altars built to honor our loved ones
Marigold petals are there to guide spirits back home
Salt to purify the visiting souls
November 1st and 2nd
When spirits return home
To spend time with their families
Let’s show them a great time!
I have seen masks that give me a fright
But the barn owl masks are truly not right
They turn the warriors into crying babies.
Running away as if we all have rabies.
The barn owl masks are spooky for sure.
They have scared the Trojans and Aztecs pure.
We think this is why the Mayans ran away.
Have you seen them? Asked my frightened Cousin May.
Teotl is the shining gold light above everything
Wearing a mask of white and grey clouds
Teotl is the breath and wind of all seen and unseen
Greeting all who return to its arms
Split a piece of wood, hear a heart pulsating within
Lift a rock, smell fine incense burning
Open up a flower bud, see threads interlacing
Know the turquoise snake shedding its skin
Be reborn as a splendid tlamatini
Remaining on the straight narrow road
Be a passer-by on the slippery land of mud
Walking between maguey and thorns
Walking towards the golden light shining above clouds
Poem inspired by Saying 77 of the Gospel of Thomas combined with Aztec philosophy (especially the concept of "Teotl")
Masterpiece of an Indio
Legacy of one native Bravo
As I gaze at the piece
Memories of gladiators seize
Under the roofs of soft floors
Are bloodsheds on hard, scratched floors
Have you ever wondered
Why warriors are devoid?
Of worldly possessions unplundered
Die with swords unparanoid
Heroes or heels are subjects
Painted in oil, not Aztecs
Brushed and colored in blood
Mustache of a Maestro in a cloud
What makes a word?
Who made each word?
Someone had to, right?
It may have been Adam and Eve.
Or perhaps they sat around staring at apples and fig leaves.
Maybe they hummed, and marched and sang nonsense songs.
Maybe they started making words out of sheer boredom and desperation
TREE Adam said, pointing. APPLE Eve argued, being a woman.
The cavemen might have been the first to make up words.
They would have started from grunts probably.
UMMMMMMMMMMMM made more often while eating
Soon turning to YUMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
The Incas, Mayas and Aztecs might have been the first to use words.
Because they were a bit more advanced. Maybe arguing about it at first
But rapidly giving in to the high priests who somehow became the ones
To convince them to sacrifice a virgin for the crops each year.
They probably had to develop words to be persuasive.
Can you imagine our day without words?
I cannot even imagine a day without typing
Or writing something…
World War two
The properties of gemstones
The Mayans
The Bible
Native Americans
Spirituality
Extra Sensory Perception
Hypnotism
Clairaudience
Palmistry
Assertiveness training
Psychometry
Sociology
Sedona
Near Death Experiences
Psychological Case Studies
Brain Research
Clairasentience
Geology
Aztecs
Egyptians
Horatio Alger stories
Clairavoyance
When I stop being interested in new things
When I stop learning
My dying begins
When sharks kill people we go hunt them,
though the sea's not our home, it is theirs,
and when we trespass and get kicked in the ass
do the same thing to Lions and bears.
The Aztecs fell foul of the Spanish,
the Incas wiped out by them too,
later Western marauders extended their borders
and took out Commanche and Sioux.
On the side of the Pioneer space probe
you'll find a gold anodized plaque,
in the 70's we sent it, to you we have lent it
but one day we would like it back.
The plaque has a man and a woman,
man's hand raised in peace as you'll see,
but when we cross new frontiers
I think that my main fear
is you won't understand irony.
I left my class tonight full, exhausted.
Every joint aches and barely able to walk.
The trip to the car was barely mustered,
and I reflected a time on the talk.
I had completed a three-hour class
and felt as I had in a marathon.
I had left all that I am in a mass
back there in the class and I had truly won
their hearts and minds by truth-telling them
of Aztecs and conquistadores, Buddhist
monks on great voyages, ancient times when
there was romance, intrigue and a long line
of compelling moments were woven last night
into a history that was done right.
Zeros And Ones
Written By. D. Collins 2/25/16
If we read the language of zeros and ones.
We could plot distance far, beyond the sun.
Each binary digit, which only means two.
Is what the Mayans and Aztecs already knew.
An infinite amount of stuff can be represented.
Each cell of matter is tied all up in it.
It’s the one and two. The Alpha and Omega.
The stuff that’ll make true drama hate ‘ya.
Using zeros and ones explains all religions.
God came from the sky “smiting” with precision.
He probably uses the theory of zeros and ones.
Far more advanced than our standard handguns.
So, when the **** hits the fan, where’ll you be?
Knowing the language, or hiding under a tree?
Zeros and ones is how we’ll communicate.
The universal language known throughout space.
Aztecs ripping out the hearts of sacrifices!
A sacrifice for what? For what is sacrifice?
The cactus looks tasty beyond its prickly surface, the flowers that spring from the greenness withheld are beautiful as color reflects the sun...
If such a thing is possible or is it the sun which reflects color?
Ignorance of my being and surrounding has prevented my knowing and so in truth I know little.
Yet in doubt I write on.
Eye cannot.
Eye cannot hear.
Eye cannot taste.
Eye cannot smell.
Eye cannot feel.(typically...unless something flies into eye)
Eye can see!
Oh the scorching sun shines down upon me, exhausting every part of my being.
Yet truly I sit in a library...
I am the one who once traveled by flight and foot
And now I slither around on my round-body
My tongue has always been and still is split in half
In my first stage of life my speeches consisted of fire-bursts, ice-shards, smoke rings, and whirling-wild-winds
Now my speeches are speedy rollings-of-the-tongues and a-spitting venom-filled saliva
Horned was I back in the days after I had hatched out of my egg
Now my mushroom-like head consists of my eyes, my nostrils, and my ears
Once I had massive teeth to help me emasculate my food
And now I must swallow all of my food whole
Many primitive cultures have used me as a symbol for both good and evil
I symbolize the Morning Star, and have been blessed with many different names
Nevertheless, I am worshiped by many cultures of mankind as a powerful being
I am the Light-Bringer, and the Knowledge-Bringer to mankind and am similar to Prometheus
I seduced Eve to bite the apple in order that she may have knowledge and become like Yahweh
I am also Quetzalcoatl, the revered sky god of the Aztecs
Without the symbolism that mankind has placed upon me I am nothing more than a plain reptile
Atlantis
> Atlantis broke into Islands three
> Back in ancient antiquity
> The redskin Nations emigrated
> Mound builders on the Mississippi, generated
>
> Some ***** people now in Africa
> Have the very dark reddish hue
> All around the great Atlantic
> Pyramids the Aztecs too.
>
> Atlantis once more was a sinking
> By boat they went to nations new
> Fought ancient Greeks, who were a thinking
> The Dark side nation’s violence grew
>
> The final cataclysm occured
> Rock from heaven drowned the land
> Atlantic full of mud , Solon iinferred
> Then came Egypyt ‘s, outpost grand
>
> Sons of the law of one god
> Built great pyramid, yes they knew
> Artisans put the blocks together
> Perfect cut with lines so true
>
> Ra Ta and Mercury the Architect......(was Ra the sun god.&.Mercury/Thoth)
> Built this monument of the ages
> Engineering lasting almost perfect..........(Kunkel says water pump Pyramid)
> Forgotten, Alexandria's library burned the pages
(burnt by Romans last time?)
>Don Johnson
Why wont you look into my eyes and confide in me?
The support offered within the boundary with limits unexplained like the teaching of
the Aztecs.
I wont be your fool.
A tool to be used, to feel sorry for you, to be broken and tired of, when I will be
replaced tomorrow
A borrowed shoulder for false tears
I refuse to lose my emotions this way
You have chosen to ignore what is known to be wrong. For to long you've carried
PAIN and Blame in the name for others to use and abuse you. Leaving no error for
love.
Reason unknown.
Must be the game.
A well kept secret conspired to hurt leaving shattered , unhealed pieces of a broken
heart in the wake of so much pain, evil could not bare.
She's a riddle never to be solved.
A problem with a surmise to answer for all questions asked.
Feelings made without love
the tears still burn, will she ever learn?
By Ksmalls
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